From cloth to canvas: Reinventing gee's bend quilts in the name of art

Museum Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-34

  Duncan, Sally Anne ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85055306953     PISSN: 08928339     EISSN: 15481379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mua.2005.28.1.19     Document Type: Article

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